The Plastic Plot - Happily Ever After?

Sources:

Recycling Timeline

• https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2007/06/09/the-truth-about-recycling

• https://time.com/4568234/history-origins-recycling/

• https://www.buschsystems.com/resource-center/page/a-brief-timeline-of-the-history-of-recycling

• https://www.litterbins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-recycling/

• https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/environment/history-of-recycling-from-living-scarcity-to-coping-excess/

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-brief-history-of-plastic-world-conquest/

History of the “Chasing Arrows” Recycling Symbol

• https://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/es196/projects/2005final/Siddiqui.pdf

• https://recyclenation.com/2011/05/history-universal-recycling-symbol/

• https://redflag.org/magazine/issue-6/recycle-man/

Paper Recycling

•  https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3977

Plastic - Celluloid, Bakelite, and Nylon

• https://www.explainthatstuff.com/plastics.html

• https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite.html

• https://sciencing.com/nylons-properties-uses-8627049.html

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-brief-history-of-plastic-world-conquest/

Life Magazine Article - Throwaway Living

• https://businessintegrity.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/throwaway-living/

Plastic Pollution

• https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

Keep America Beautiful, Cows, and the “Crying Indian” Ad

• https://kab.org/about/approach/mission-history/

• https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-indian-crying-environment-ads-pollution-1123-20171113-story.html

• https://www.npr.org/transcripts/757539617

• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-litter-campaigns/

• Seeing Green by Finis Dunaway

Greenwashing

• https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10946-greenwashing.html

Additional Sources:

Bakelite made with asbestos: https://www.asbestos.com/products/plastics/